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Why are you slandering people that you have never met based on some cherrypicked out of context tweets? The way Dawkins picked a random fact about Muslims out o
by nexthash 6y ago
Why are you slandering people that you have never met based on some cherrypicked out of context tweets? The way Dawkins picked a random fact about Muslims out of a hat and broadcast it to his followers adds nothing to academic discourse and puts them in a bad light. Its application is discriminatory and demeaning. He deserves to be called out. While woke culture and political correctness on Twitter have their own problems, the whole point is to counteract blatant racism like this. Facts, math, and merit are not racist, but using them as a bludgeon to degrade and discriminate on racial grounds is.
- treelovinhippie 6y agoBecause these bad ideas are more widespread than you know. If a video of the San Francisco School Board Commissioner saying "merit is racist" is not enough for you to recognize a growing problem, then good luck.
- nexthash 6y agoYou are focused on the wrong set of 'bad ideas'. Lack of civil liberties for certain groups in this country is what you should really be worried about. Meritocracy and the idea of an 'even playing field' is a myth. If you fail to recognize that the consequences of racial discrimination in all of its forms in America (Jim Crow, immigration quotas, reservations, over-policing of minorities, the war on drugs) affect us today, you might be the one not seeing things. Focus on uplifting people, not kicking them when they try to bring a voice to important issues. Here's a very good article about the subject: https://aeon.co/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you https://aeon.co/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-fa...